Save a Marriage (2025)

Well, this drama makes my blood boils

I watched this last year and i know this is Bai Yan-Zhang Bei Xi version. Xie Yu Wang and Liu Lange delivers their role perfectly. The plot was not perfect from the start but the emotional depth in main character this drama is far more better than the first version. ML and FL aren't perfect and have flaws. I wont recommend this drama unless you're fans of the actors.

Liu Lange is quite pretty good actress, but the dramas she chooses aren't very good. In this drama, all I can say is that the FL has good heart is a disease, but she's incurable, so she gets hurt in various ways. The drama starts with the ML's affair with his ex-girlfriend, and FL is beaten by her father. What I found different from the usual formula was that FL's arguments were all on point; every word she uttered was effective, not just mindless taunting. ML in this version really have no boundaries and i think FL was more wise in this version.

FL was injured, but ML didn't intervene. This was mainly because the two families had a business cooperative relationship, making it difficult to directly punish the sister-in-law. Furthermore, punishing her might implicate FL. Therefore, ML used a rather extreme method: he personally intervened, using photos as leverage against the sister-in-law. Personally, I think this was perfectly acceptable. As a result, the sister-in-law didn't cause any further trouble for the FL.

When FL gets pregnant right after their marriage, she tells ML they should live a good life together, but he tells her to abort the child. Later, ML explains that it's because they have no feelings for each other and he doesn't want to have the child, but this explanation feels weak.

I think there should have been more build-up about ML to his feelings for the FL. Some misunderstandings were indeed influenced by external factors, not by the ML's own inner turmoil, so they were somewhat understandable. The ending is the divorce followed by a proposal felt a bit rushed. At least there would have been a courtship process; that would have made the viewing experience much better. My ideal ending in this drama were the leads are not back together, it would be on my recommended drama.

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Simply an enemies-to-lovers story

This drama frustrated me, but in a good way, because so much of Shang Yiran and Xu Mubai's five-year marriage is built around one thing: **misunderstanding**.

From the beginning, the FL is brought into the family not because anyone truly cares about what she wants, but mainly because the marriage benefits the two families and their businesses. She becomes a piece in someone else's plan, while she and Xu Mubai are left dealing with the emotional consequences.

For five years, they live like enemies. Xu Mubai is cold, arrogant, and convinced he understands the woman he married, while Shang Yiran is strong and stubborn because she has learned to protect herself. Every argument adds another wall between them. The frustrating part is realizing that underneath all that anger are feelings neither one properly understands.

What kept me watching was slowly discovering how much of their hatred was created by things they believed rather than the complete truth. Had these two actually communicated instead of allowing family expectations, assumptions, and pride to control them, their marriage could have been completely different.

I especially felt for Shang Yiran because she was placed into this situation for the sake of business and then had to carry much of the emotional burden that followed.

This isn't simply an enemies-to-lovers story. It's about two married people discovering how badly misunderstanding can distort love.

Sometimes the person sleeping beside you isn't your enemy—you've simply never been given the chance to truly know them. ❤️

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